"Many of [rock music's] original ingredients have become sanitised beyond recognition or outlawed by the march of time and circumstance. Sex is blighted by AIDS, drugs are blighted by crack addition and even rock 'n' roll itself is blighted by big business. But rock music wasn't always about pleasing the corporate sponsors or creating the right image for the camera ... It is a bumper collection of photographs, mostly of rock and pop stars in situations where, in hindsight, they would probably have preferred the cameramen to have been elsewhere at the time"--Publisher's description.